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Rush compared Bill Ayers to Timothy McVeigh. I found this video that makes the analogy. We Hurt. We Remember. We Vote. It matters to us.... Who you're friends are.

Stashed in 700 feet of boxes tucked away at the University of Texas at Austin lies a detailed look at the case of Timothy McVeigh. He's the Gulf War veteran executed in 2001 for bombing the federal building in Oklahoma City. McVeigh lead counsel Stephen Jones of Enid, Okla., donated transcripts, FBI reports, correspondence, videotapes and other materials to UT a few years ago, but the archive didn't become public until a federal court ruled this month that Jones couldn't claim a charitable tax deduction for the gift. The archive sits in the University's Center for American History. It's a...

According to USINFO, a website "produced and maintained by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs", President George Bush said in an October 4, 2007 Arab television program that Islam is a "great religion that preaches peace." According to World Net Daily, Bush made the statement "in an interview with Al Arabiya reporter Elie Nakouzi." The U.S. Department of State website also stated, "The president said he does not believe that those who murder innocent men, women and children for political objectives are 'religious people,' whether they be suicide bombers in Iraq or self-proclaimed Christians such as...

I always wondered if Timothy McVaigh really was the one who did the whole thing. While talking to some friends about this one mentioned there has been some work done here and some published articles about a possible Muslim connection.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI failed to fully investigate information suggesting other suspects may have helped Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, allowing questions to linger more than a decade after the deadly attack, a congressional inquiry concludes. The House International Relations investigative subcommittee will release the findings of its two-year-review as early as Wednesday, declaring there is no conclusive evidence of a foreign connection to the attack but that far too many unanswered questions remain. The subcommittee's report will conclude there is no doubt McVeigh and Nichols were the main perpetrators, and it discloses...

MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES - There are so many links between the Abu Sayyaf Group of the Philippines, which beheaded an American hostage a few months ago, and Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist network, that on paper they look like the route map for a Peshawar-based airline. The links run from that high, bleak border city in Pakistan to terrorist dens in Afghanistan and Yemen; to murders and bombings in the Philippines; to the first attack on the World Trade Center; to a foiled attempt to assassinate the pope during a 1995 visit to Manila. A captured Abu Sayyaf guerrilla, ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - FBI evidence that helped convict Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols went on display Friday at the Oklahoma City bombing memorial, even as a congressman and others continue to raise questions about the 1995 explosion that killed 168 people. The display includes items ranging from mangled pieces of the truck used in the explosion to the automatic Glock handgun taken from McVeigh when he was arrested by a state trooper 90 miles from the bombing site. ``Hopefully, the exhibit will answer some of the questions the public has regarding the investigation,'' said Nancy Coggins, spokeswoman for the...

ATLANTA (CNS) -- When he ministered to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, Divine Word Father Charles Smith found that his faith, instilled in him by loving parents despite the childhood pain of discrimination, enabled him to be Christ's representative even as the inmate verbally assaulted him. "When I first came in (to see him) I thought 'God is the owner of my life,' and I went to him and he threw his feces on me and called me all types of names and said, 'You can't be a priest because I've never seen a you-know-what as a priest,'" Father Smith...

ATLANTA, Ga. (CNS) – When he ministered to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, Divine Word Father Charles Smith found that his faith, instilled in him by loving parents despite the childhood pain of discrimination, enabled him to be Christ's representative even as the inmate verbally assaulted him. "When I first came in (to see him) I thought 'God is the owner of my life,' and I went to him and he threw his feces on me and called me all types of names and said, 'You can't be a priest because I've never seen a you-know-what as a priest,'" Father...

In what some on Capitol Hill are calling a surprising decision, Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., has given the nod for hearings into the long-debated question of whether those responsible for the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building had help from any foreign source. Spurred to action by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., Hyde has given Rohrabacher's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee the wide-ranging authority to conduct interviews and subpoena documents related to the April 19, 1995, terrorist attack that left 168 dead, 19 of them children. Interviewed Wednesday, Rohrabacher confirmed that his nearly two-year-long personal...

JAYNA DAVIS TO GO AFTER ROHRABACHER on Monday morning, we believe in the 7AM hour, Central Time. LISTEN TO THE KLIF STREAM FROM DALLAS California Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has made some news lately regarding reopening an investigation into the OKC bombing. But don't anticipate that Rohrabacher really wants to get to the truth. Those who have followed Jayna's incredible reporting and read her blockbuster book, THE THIRD TERRORIST, know that there has been a coverup of the Iraqi connection to the bombing of the Murrah Building. Jayna has 22 eyewitnesses who make compelling witnesses that Iraqis were involved in...

Feds say Padilla may have been higher in Al Qaeda WLS By Chuck Goudie May 25, 2006 (Last Updated: 8:23:47 PM) - Federal investigators say they have evidence that former Chicago street gang member Jose Padilla was a higher ranking member of Al Qaeda than first thought. Four years ago this month when Jose Padilla was arrested at O'Hare Airport, federal agents considered him a Chicago street gang member who had been recruited by Al Qaeda terrorists to scout potential American targets, but now U.S. prosecutors believe Padilla was operating at a much higher level than just an advance man...

'Rita Cosby Live & Direct' for April 18 (Much snippage) Also, 11 years after the Oklahoma City bombing, stunning new claims that others may have played a role in the attack.  I sat down for an exclusive interview with Josh Nichols, the son of conspirator Terry Nichols, and he broke some news.  He says that his father will reveal who may have helped.  (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)COSBY:  Do you believe that there are several others involved beyond your father and Timothy McVeigh?  JOSH NICHOLS, SON OF OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING CONSPIRATOR:  Yes, and there was more people involved.COSBY:  More than just one?NICHOLS: ...

BBC archive: 1995: Many feared dead in Oklahoma bombing A huge car bomb has exploded at a government building in Oklahoma City killing at least 80 people including 17 children at a nursery. At least 100 people have been injured and the number of dead is expected to rise. In an emotional speech, President Bill Clinton vowed "swift, certain and severe" punishment for those behind the atrocity. "The United States will not tolerate and I will not allow the people of this country to be intimidated by evil cowards," he told a White House news conference this evening. Trapped in...

The BBC re-published an online article today that they first published 11 years ago. Note the following paragraph: The State Department would not discuss the possibility of this being a terrorist attack but the FBI and Oklahoma police put out an alert for three men believed to be of Middle Eastern origin driving a brown Chevrolet pick-up truck. Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and ten of his supporters are currently on trial for the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993. We all know today that the government dropped its search for any connection to Middle East terrorists, despite strong evidence...

ROHRBACHER DEMANDING NEW PROBE OF OKC Jayna Davis and I had an interesting phone conversation this morning. She is still waiting for a plane ticket to D.C. and an invitation to testify about the OKC bombing. Neither has been forthcoming. Is it good news that Rep. Dana Rohrbacher (R-CA) is demanding a new probe of the OKC bombing? Maybe. But is it going to really get to the truth about the Middle Eastern connection to OKC? Maybe not. Last year, David Schippers, famous for prosecuting both the Chicago mob and William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, flew to OKC to meet...

Posterboard is up on screen showing translations of what Saddam and Tariq Aziz said on the tapes released this weekend at the Intelligence Summit. It sounds like former UN inspector Tierney is the one reading the translations.

LONDON, July 10 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – A U.S. author has launched a blistering attack on U.S. president George W. Bush’s war on terror, a U.K. newspaper reported Wednesday. In his latest book titled Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got To Be So Hated, Gore Vidal raised several question marks, U.K. daily newspaper the Daily Mirror reported. The outspoken 76-year-old said the U.S. provoked the September 11 attacks with its own military intervention in countries around the world, the paper said. Staunch democrat Vidal, a former White House aide to John F. Kennedy, insisted the U.S. should...

Terry Nichols, Philippines, bombs, etc. See Mark Tapscott here: “Before Able Danger and Mohamed Atta, There Was Murrah Building Bombing and Hussain Al-Hussaini; Journalist Uncovers OKC Links to 9/11, which links to this L.A. Weekly article: “The Rohrabacher Test: Congressman questions Terry Nichols about Oklahoma City bombing”. The Mark Tapscott link also has a comprehensive statement from Jayna Davis, who has pursued this story for ten long years and has now written a book entitled “The Third Terrorist”. One interesting quote — among many — in the L.A. Weekly piece is from Richard Clarke: Clarke wrote that the theory of...

OKC BOMBING FALLOUT Congressman to FBI: Turn over documents Rohrabacher hopes feds won't attempt to delay investigation into attack Posted: August 24, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern By J.D. Cash © 2005 McCurtain Daily Gazette Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. The McCurtain Daily Gazette has obtained a copy of U.S. Rep. Dan Rohrabacher's tersely worded letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller, asking him to comply with a federal judge's order directing the Oklahoma City FBI office to provide records regarding their investigation at Elohim City and the Mid-west bank robbery gang. Rohrabacher, R-Calif., recently interviewed convicted killer Terry Nichols and others with information concerning...